Hours before his death, Pope Francis made an appearance before a crowd of thousands at Saint Peter’s Square where his Easter blessing was read by Archbishop Diego Ravelli.

When he was installed as head of Roman Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis was heralded as a progressive change-maker. For ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in ...

The visit lasted only a few minutes, during which time the Pope, who is recovering from a near-fatal bout of pneumonia, offered Vance a Vatican necktie and rosaries ...